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Visual Information for Digital Inclusion Process in Hybrid Libraries and Librarians’ Action Visual Information for digital inclusion process in hybrid libraries and librarians’ action Rafaela Carolina da Silva* Maria José Vicentini Jorente Rosângela Formentini Caldas Natalia Nakano Artículo recibido: ABSTRACT 24 de mayo de 2016 Artículo aceptado: The set of actions and cultural conditions of a society 14 de noviembre de 2016 produce information in such a way to act directly on the development and use of services and goods by this so- ciety. Digital inclusion and the use of images is encour- aged as converging languages within hybrid libraries. We aimed to study attractive resources provided by visual language in social and digital inclusion pro- cesses. Therefore, we carried out a literature review on the syntax of visual languages. As a result, a Guide for Librarians was constructed. We concluded that un- derstanding and using images serve as a convergence for those who experience them. * Universidade Estadual Júlio de Mesquita Filho, São Paulo State, Brasil. [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] INVESTIGACIÓN BIBLIOTECOLÓGICA, vol. 32, núm. 76, julio/septiembre, 2018, México, ISSN: 2448-8321 pp. 79-96 79 Keywords: Information and Technology; Visual 79-96 Information; Visual Languages. Digital Inclusion. pp. pp. , 2448-8321 La información visual para el proceso de inclusión ISSN: ISSN: digital en bibliotecas híbridas Rafaela Carolina-da-Silva, Maria-José Vicentini-Jorente, , México, México, , Rosângela Formentini-Caldas and Natalia Nakano 2018 RESUMEN , julio/septiembre, julio/septiembre, , 76 El conjunto de acciones y condiciones culturales de una sociedad produce información, de tal manera que , núm. , 32 actúa directamente sobre el desarrollo, uso de servi- vol. , cios y bienes por parte de dicha sociedad. Se fomenta la inclusión digital y el uso de imágenes como idiomas convergentes dentro de las bibliotecas híbridas. Apun- tamos a estudiar los recursos atractivos proporciona- BIBLIOTECOLÓGICA dos por el lenguaje visual en los procesos de inclusión social y digital. Por lo tanto, realizamos una revisión de la literatura sobre la sintaxis de los lenguajes visuales. INVESTIGACIÓN Como resultado, se construyó una guía para biblio- tecarios. Concluimos que la comprensión y el uso de imágenes sirven como convergencia para quienes ex- perimentan dichos lenguajes. Palabras clave: Información y Tecnología; In- formación Visual; Lenguajes Visuales; Inclusión Digital. INTRODUCTION he liberal trend of the Enlightment in the eighteenth century promoted Ta new idea of education focused on human beings and stimulated prole- tariat movements to pressure society to conquer benefits such as the popula- rization of education. Generally, we can say that the philosophical pedagogy of the Enlightment marked the western history, as principles of liberty and equality were also present at French Revolution (Pereira, 2013: 10). The Encyclopedia, or Systematic Dictionary of the Sciences, Arts, and Crafts was the main instrument that publicized the thought of the Enlightment mo- vement; it also replaced the faith on the Catholic Church by the faith on the 80 VISUAL INFORMATION FOR DIGITAL INCLUSION PROCESS... scientific knowledge. In the beginning, part of the encyclopedia remained secret, but the Encyclopedist movement allowed its popularization. The Enlightment resulted in an international development of scientific production and education of society in the nineteenth century. In this con- text, the vision of library techniques and formats changed because of the in- dustrial intervention. However, technological transformations taking place at that histori- cal moment did not cause users the impact at first. In this perspective, the historical conjuncture of Second World War, the conflicts among develop- ment, populism and labor issues became the foundation of social, political and cultural relations. Literacy and basic education of children and adults were stimulated in te- chnical courses, establishing the grounds for the educational model we have http://dx.doi.org/10.22201/iibi.24488321xe.2018.76.57978 today: elementary school, high school and higher education (Simili, 2008). DOI: Thus, after the Second World War, the world changed, and in consequen- ce, the work of librarians also changed and incorporated different modes of language and thoughts - texts, images, sounds and voices in a multimedia environment, with digitization allowing the organization of information flow (Santaella, 2001: 393). This convergence of languages was possible because of reading in diffe- rent formats that allow the contact with digital languages, i.e., concepts that simulate, through computing, products and services in the real world. In this context, the librarians are part of this scenario in which access to infor- mation involves not only practice, but also the individual being favored by such practice in a way to construct the collective of the institution through converging languages. Thus, we witness a convergence of languages and media. The study of visual language syntax, such as in verbal language, determines the semantic results achieved through the visual communication process: instead of the subject-verb-predicative structure of the verbal language, the visual language organize its parts according to human perception. In this way, by uniting two or more languages, such as written, sound, visual and audiovisual, what we have is named converging languages (or hybrid lan- guages), which are characterized as visual languages, but also comprise other types of communication such as the sound, essential to human perception and their interaction is achieved through attraction and grouping relations. We highlight that in the Gestalt principles (Berlin School of experimen- tal psychology) the psychophysiological relations of the brain are sponta- neous and sharpened according to attraction and dispersion of the images relations. Therefore, human beings receive and express visual messages in different levels: representational, abstract and symbolic. 81 The human eye tends, from generalizations, to make individual records 79-96 of the elements with similar characteristics, intellectually forming concepts pp. pp. , (Arnheim, 2005). As a consequence, the semantic or meaning of a language emerges from the moment the subject uses a set of signs to express himself. 2448-8321 It is, therefore, necessary that human beings know how to decode a lan- ISSN: ISSN: guage in order to interpret it, and then generate meaning. These meanings, , México, México, , when applied, will construct knowledge, generating new information needs 2018 for the subjects. Visual language, when worked out in such a way to allow the convergence of traditional means, focused on physical spaces as well as digital ones, me- diated through electronic or digital, is acting on the so-called hybrid spaces. , julio/septiembre, julio/septiembre, , 76 Thus, hybrid library settings converge different types of languages (visual, , núm. , sound and textual) as well as traditional and digital technologies, which turn 32 vol. them into hybrid, dynamic spaces, more accessible to the community. , In this context, the purpose of this paper is to describe the syntax of vi- sual language and its applicability in hybrid library settings, observing the context of how visual language can provide more attractive and dynamic BIBLIOTECOLÓGICA ways to visualize the resources of information centers, and consequently con- tribute with digital inclusion in libraries. The approach was qualitative, exploratory and explanatory. The method INVESTIGACIÓN used was the bibliographical research. The research universe sought to focus on the transformation processes of informational supports and the formal and conceptual characteristics of the messages provided by visual information. Subsequently, we propose a semantic application of this study through the de- velopment of a guide for professionals working in the library environment. The purpose was to guide professionals to choose visual structures to at- tract the users’ interest to attend the library. Given that, we can argue that cognitive and human changes from new social demands made imperative that information professionals and cultural agents understand languages that interact with the library. Hence, in order to have the services offered by hybrid libraries publici- zed and implanted in this new paradigm, the participation of the informa- tion professional, analog and digital technologies and languages is necessary. Thus, segmentation and institutional participation are part of decoding and coding of information by users and information professionals. Visual language syntax Unlike verbal language, visual language presupposes visual intelligence with visual literacy, due to the vision system of the human eye. Walter Benjamin, 82 VISUAL INFORMATION FOR DIGITAL INCLUSION PROCESS... already in 1936, when he wrote The work of art in the age of mechanical repro- duction stated that “Pictorial language has not yet matured because our eyes have not yet adjusted to it. There is as yet insufficient respect for, insufficient cult of, what it expresses” (Benjamin, 2008). Most part of language explorations start from the idea of space as the per- ceptual field of an observer. The comprehension of the discourse of these ima- ges needs help and translations into the natural verbal language, which is better known, due to the little education that western society has of visual language. The notion of image for Joly (2007)
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